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1. Migration, Family and the Welfare State

   Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia

   Edited by Karen Fog Olwig, Birgitte Romme Larsen, Mikkel Rytter

   Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Children's Places

   Cross-Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Karen Fog Olwig, Eva Gullov

   Children's Places examines the ways in which children and adults, from their different vantage-points in society, negotiate the 'proper place' of children in both social and spatial terms. It looks at some of the recognised constructions of children, including perspectives from cultures that do not...

   Published October 15th 2003 by Routledge
3. Work and Migration

   Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World

   By Karen Fog Olwig, Ninna Nyberg Sorensen

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Using case-studies from those who have moved either transnationally or internally within their own country, international contributors offer various definitions of what it means to make a living on the move....

   Published December 5th 2001 by Routledge
4. Siting Culture

   The Shifting Anthropological Object

   Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Karen Fog Olwig

   Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are...

   Published November 27th 1996 by Routledge
5. Global Culture, Island Identity

   By Karen Fog Olwig

   Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social...

   Published February 8th 1996 by Routledge
6. Small Islands, Large Questions

   Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean

   Edited by Karen Fog Olwig

   Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies

   This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean....

   Published July 31st 1995 by Routledge
7. Global Culture, Island Identity

   Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis

   By Karen Fog Olwig

   Series: Studies in Anthropology and History

   Published May 4th 1993 by Routledge